Darien, Missouri

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Darien
Coordinates: 37°31′12″N91°35′33″W / 37.52000°N 91.59250°W / 37.52000; -91.59250
CountryUnited States
State Missouri
County Dent County
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)

Darien is an unincorporated community in Dent County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1]

History

A post office called Darien was established in 1888, and remained in operation until 1954. [2] The community was named after a place mentioned in the last line of the John Keats sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer". [3]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Darien, Missouri
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
  3. Ramsay, Robert L. (1952). Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names. University of Missouri Press. p. 137. ISBN   978-0-8262-0586-5.